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Montgomery: "The triage will definitely be in the room again"
5 a.m.:
In view of the increasing number of patients in the third corona wave, the chairman of the World Medical Association has warned against the worsening of the situation in German hospitals.
"We are now being caught up in the clinics by the infections that took place four weeks ago," said Frank Ulrich Montgomery of the "Passauer Neue Presse".
The triage will "definitely" be in the room again.
Triage means that medical professionals must decide who to help first due to scarce resources.
“We were very grateful that it wasn't needed in the first two waves.
It is conceivable that there will be situations in which it is used. ”It is therefore right that the clinics prepare for a rush, said Montgomery.
Europe's largest university clinic, the Berlin Charité, had announced that it would employ more employees in Covid-19 areas again in the coming week and reduce plannable interventions.
Curevac hopes for EU vaccine approval in May
04.01 a.m.:
The Tübingen vaccine manufacturer Curevac considers European approval of its corona vaccine to be possible in May or June in view of the progress made in the necessary studies.
"We are already very advanced in the third clinical test phase and expect the data for the final approval package," said Curevac spokesman Thorsten Schüller of the "Augsburger Allgemeine".
The virus variants would have increased the complexity for the ongoing clinical study three, according to Schüller.
Curevac plans to continue producing up to 300 million vaccine doses this year.
Bayer will also produce the mRNA vaccine.
Esken criticizes holding high school exams in pandemic year
2:05 a.m.:
The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken has criticized the decision of the Conference of Ministers of Education to hold the Abitur exams this year.
"Unlike the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, I would be in favor of grading the entire year and not holding any Abitur exams, because these would hardly be comparable to previous years anyway," said Esken of the "Rheinische Post".
"However, that would also have to apply to the other school-leaving qualifications, that is, to secondary and secondary school-leaving qualifications." She is surprised that all other qualifications are neglected in the debate, said the SPD leader.
The Abitur graduates in Germany should take their exams by resolution of the Conference of Ministers of Education on Thursday evening this year despite the corona pandemic.
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